Magazine-binder.



No. 687,568. Pa tented Nov. 26, l90l.

F. P. uvmesron.

MAGAZINE BINDER.

(Application filed Feb. 14, 1901.) (No Model.)

2 Shuts-Sheet I.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREMONT P. LIVINGSTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. I

MAGAZINE-BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,568, dated November 26, 1901. Application filed February 14, 1901. Serial No. 47,347. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREMONT P. LIVING- STON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburg, county of Allegheny,State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Magazine Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to binders for maga zines, pamphlets, and other periodicals, and

has for its object to provide an inexpensive binder of simple yet durable construction that can be easily manipulated by the user in inserting or extracting the magazines and one that will readily adapt itself to hold maga-' zines diifering in thickness and when filled produce a book of neat and finished appearance.

With these objects in view my invention consists of a back or base provided with wires, rods, or strands for holding the magazines pivoted to the back piece at each end, the ends of the wires having long downward bends, whereby a space is provided to insert the magazines between the wire and the top of the back or base, and the wires are free to oscillate on their pivots.

My invention also consists in providing guide-slots for the back, in which the bent ends of the binder-wires are inserted and adapted to slide.

My invention further consists in certain combinations and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View showing my improved binder complete with the covers open. Fig. 2 is a side view of the back piece or base with binder-wires and a section of a magazine shown in position, the covers being removed. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view taken on the line a z of Fig. 2 and showing the outside binder-wire resting against the cap which closes the end of the slot. Fig. 4 is an end view with the cap in place. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cap-piece for covering the end of the back or base and closing the ends of the slots. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the back or base with two binder-wires, one of the end cappieces being removed, showing the .slot in which the binder-Wires are secured. Fig. 7 shows a side view and section of the binderstrip made of round wire having bent ends.

opposite end views of the modified construction shown in Fig. 15.

Referring to the preferred form of construction of my invention as illustrated on Sheet 1 of the drawings, the back piece or base 1 is made of a suitable length and width adapted to receive a certain number, such as six or twelve, of a given magazine, and has a cut-away portion and a slot 2, formed in each end thereof, extending transversely across the back. The back piece or base is preferably made of wood, though any other suitable material may be used. The means for holding the magazines or periodicals to the back consist of wires, rods, or strips 4, preferably of metal, and will be termed binder-wires, but it is to be understood that these may be formed of light round wire bent to shape, as shown in Fig. 7, or they may be stamped out of thin sheet metal, as indicated at 4 in Fig. 8, or they may be'made in any other desirable way. The binder-wires are formed with substantially square hookshaped ends, the square end portions or downward bends 5 being of considerable length and having the inward-bent portion 6 adapted to be inserted in the slots 2 of the back piece or base 1. These end portions 6 of the binder-wires are free to slide longitudinally in the slots and will thus adjust themselves to slight differences in the thicknesses of the magazines, and at the same time the binder-Wires are adapted to oscillate or swing on these inwardly-bent end portions as pivots. A cap-piece 7, preferablyo cured to the end of the wooden base and is provided with two projecting arms 8 at right angles to the plane of the cap, as shown in Fig. 5, for closing the open ends of the slots 2. In this way the binder-wires are secured in the slots, and the end portions or downward bends 5 are of sufficient length to prothin metal, is se- IOO vide a convenient space 9 under the wire 4; and between it and the face of the base 1, in which the magazines may be slipped onto the binder-wires. "lhe cap-piece 7 extends upward a sufficient distance to cover the downwardly-bent end 5 of the binder-wires, and the arms 8 are of a sufficient width to cover the open ends of the slots and have their upper edges about flush with upper face of the base 1, which is some distance above the slot 2, in which the wires are pivoted, so that the upper edge of the arms 8 forms a rest for the downwardly-bent portions 5 of the outside binder-wires, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 40f the drawings. This prevents the outer wires from lying over flatwise when the book is opened and at the same time allows the wires to diverge from each other and assume such positions as to adjust themselves to the thickness of the magazines. An important feature of the device consists in providing the long downward bends 5, pivoted at their ends to the base, whereby the binder-wires 4 are adapted to swing at some distance above the face of the base '1, one advantage of this being that when the book is opened the wires take a radial direction with reference to the back, similar to the leaves of a regular permanently-bound book, and the binder readily lies open at any place.

Ifowing to the weight of the magazines when the volume is placed in a vertical position the downward bends 5 of the binderwires should cut through the back edge of the magazines, the end cap-pieces 7 will then support the magazines and hold the edges thereof in line with each other.

Fig. 6 shows a construction having two binder-wires, the ends in the slots being separated by means of a pin. Such a construction may be used as a reading-cover, if derectly in the wooden back, thereare various ways in which a substantially equivalent construction may be provided. As shown in Figs. 9 and 10, a fiat piece 10 of metal or other material is secured to the back at each end and projects over the notched end portion, thus forming a space in which the ends of the binder-wires are secured.

Figs. 11 and 12 show a modification in which a metal plate 11 is bent to a U-shaped form and secured in the notched end of the back or base 1 of the binder.

Instead. of slots at each end the binderwires may be pivoted at one or both ends in individual holes in the back, as shown at 12 in Figs. 13 and 14, or a downward-bent plate 13, having a slot or holes for the ends of the wires, may be secured in the notched end of the back. In Figs. 15, 16, and'17 I have shown the extreme ends 14 of the binderwires bent outward instead of inward and pivoted directly in holes or in a slot in the end caps 7. In all cases the binder-wires have the long downward-bent portions 5 projecting into the notches at the ends of the back or base 1 and pivoted therein.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a magazine-binder, the combination with a back, or base, provided with openings at its ends, of a binder-wire having downwardly and inwardly bent ends pivoted in said openings, the wire being adapted to extend entirely through the magazine and hold the same in position.

2. In a magazine-binder, the combination with a back, or base, having notched ends and an opening in the notched portion at each end of the back, of a binder-wire provided with downwardly and inwardly bent ends pivoted in said openings, the binder-wire being adaptsired.

To insert a magazine into the binder, the magazine is opened wide at its middle portion and then one end is slipped under the binder-wire and drawn through to the middle, where it closes upon the wire, thus holding it in place. In this way the magazines are inserted, one at a time, usually beginning with one of the outside wires, andthe empty wires may be pushed toward the opposite side to give plenty of room for easy manipulation.

When all the Wires are filled, the binder makes a complete and finished volume more in the nature of a permanently-bound book, although the magazines may be removed, if desired, and others may be inserted.

When the binder is complete, with the covers attached, the wooden back is entirely hidden from view by its covering of leather or cloth and the ends of the wires are covered by the end caps, which may be stained black,

' so that the book presents a neat and finished ed to extend entirely through the magazine and hold the same in position.

3. In a magazine-binder, the combination with a back, or base, provided with transverse guide-slots at its ends,of binder-wires adapted to extend through the magazine and having downwardly and inwardly bent ends pivoted in said slots and adapted to slide longitudinally thereof.

4. In a binder, the combination with aback, or base, provided with transverse guide-slots at its ends, of binder-wires having downwardly and. inwardly bent ends adapted to be inserted into the slots, and means for closing the outer ends of the slots.

5. In a binder, the combination with aback, or base, having a guide-slot formed in each end, of binder wires provided with downwardly and inwardly bent ends secured in the slots, and caps secured to the ends of the base and having extensions for closing the ends of the slots.

6. In a binder, the combination with aback, or base provided with a notch at each end thereof, of a freely-swinging binder wire, having at each end two bends at right angles IIG to each other, the extreme ends of the wire ing above the same and adapted to form a being pivotally secured in the notches at the support for the outside binder-wires. :0 ends of the base. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 7. In a binder, the combination of a back, my hand. or base, provided with a transverse guide-slot FREMONT P. LIVINGSTON. at each end, binder-wires having downwardly Witnesses: i and inwardly bent ends secured in the slots, R. F. EMERY,

and closures for the ends of the slots extend- J AS. B. MACDONALD. 

